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Great introductory textbook for college students on acoustic
Dr. Backus is a professor of physics but also a pianist and has a deep appreciation of both the intricacies of physics and the relationship of physical phenomena to musical instruments. This is a superb text forcollege music majors or physics majors although the latter would bedisappointed by the lack of equations and obvious attempts to suit the bookto music majors. I am a semi professional musician and found that this textsatisfied much of my perpetual inquisitiveness about acustical instrumentsand how they work. ... Read more